Favorite lyrics?

[Worm of Despite]

Tool doesn't like stanzas, do they?

[Byrn]

I pasted it from their website. I think it's more Maynard than anything.

Here's another one of my Favorite songs

Pearl Jam
Rearviewmirror


I took a drive today
Time to emancipate
I guess it was the beatings made me wise
But I'm not about to give thanks, or apologize
I couldn't breathe, holdin' me down
Hand on my face, kissin' the ground
Enmity gauged, united by fear
'Posed to endure what I could not forgive...

I seem to look away
Wounds in the mirror waved
It wasn't my surface most defiled
Head at your feet, fool to your crown
Fist on my plate, swallowed it down

Enmity gauged, united by fear
Tried to endure what I could not forgive

Saw things
Clearer
Once you, were in my...Rearview mirror...

I gather speed from you fucking with me
Once and for all I'm far away
I hardly believe, finally the shades...are raised...hey...

Saw things so much clearer
Once you, once you...
Rearview mirror

Saw things so much clearer
Once you...oh yeah...

[Fist and Faith]

I really like that Nickel Back song. The one that I won't post the lyrics here. I take it as a joke, but many might not. And if you don't, it's really not nice.

You're like my favorite damn disease!

[Furls Fire]

Just got the Counting Crows greatest hits album "Films About Ghosts, The Best Of..." It came because I forgot to return the little card thingie to the music club. Anyway, I had forgotten just how much I loved these guys!! Here's one of my favorites...

Round Here

Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog
where no one notices the contrast of white on white
and in between the moon and you
Angels get a better view
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

I walk in the air between the rain
through myself and back again
where? I don't know..

Maria says she's dying
through the door I hear her crying
Why? I don't know..

Round here we always stand up straight
Round here something radiates

Maria came from Nashville with a suit case in her hand
she said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
and she walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Just like she's walking on a wire in a circus
She parks her car outside my house, takes her clothes off
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
she has trouble acting normal when she's nervous.

Round here we're carving out our names
Round here we all look the same
Round here we talk just like lions
But we sacrifice like lambs
Round here she's slipping through my hands

(bridge)
Sleeping children better run like the wind
out of the lightening dream
Mama's little baby better get herself in
out of the lightening

She's says "it's only in my head"
She says, "shhh, I know, it's only in my head"

But the girl on the car in the parking lot
says, "man you should try and take a shot, can't you see my walls are crumbling?"

Then she looks up at the building,
says she's thinking of jumping
she's says she's tired of life
she must be tired of something

Round here she's always on my mind
Round here we got lots of time
Round here we're never sent to bed early
and nobody makes us wait
Round here we stay up very very very very late

I can see nothing, nothing around here
would you catch me if I'm falling
would you catch me if I'm falling
would you catch me if I'm falling down...

I said I'm under the gun
Round here...

aw man, I said I'm under the gun
Round here...

I can't see nothing, nothing
Around here...

[A Gunslinger]

I have so many favorites! Here is one that reminds me of Covenant though, especially verse 8:

Changing of the Guards, Bob Dylan:

Sixteen years,
Sixteen banners united over the field
Where the good shepherd grieves.
Desperate men, desperate women divided,
Spreading their wings 'neath the falling leaves.

Fortune calls.
I stepped forth from the shadows, to the marketplace,
Merchants and thieves, hungry for power, my last deal gone down.
She's smelling sweet like the meadows where she was born,
On midsummer's eve, near the tower.

The cold-blooded moon.
The captain waits above the celebration
Sending his thoughts to a beloved maid
Whose ebony face is beyond communication.
The captain is down but still believing that his love will be repaid.

They shaved her head.
She was torn between Jupiter and Apollo.
A messenger arrived with a black nightingale.
I seen her on the stairs and I couldn't help but follow,
Follow her down past the fountain where they lifted her veil.

I stumbled to my feet.
I rode past destruction in the ditches
With the stitches still mending 'neath a heart-shaped tattoo.
Renegade priests and treacherous young witches
Were handing out the flowers that I'd given to you.

The palace of mirrors
Where dog soldiers are reflected,
The endless road and the wailing of chimes,
The empty rooms where her memory is protected,
Where the angels' voices whisper to the souls of previous times.

She wakes him up
Forty-eight hours later, the sun is breaking
Near broken chains, mountain laurel and rolling rocks.
She's begging to know what measures he now will be taking.
He's pulling her down and she's clutching on to his long golden locks.

Gentlemen, he said,
I don't need your organization, I've shined your shoes,
I've moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.

Peace will come
With tranquility and splendor on the wheels of fire
But will bring us no reward when her false idols fall
And cruel death surrenders with its pale ghost retreating
Between the King and the Queen of Swords.

[Worm of Despite]

Here's the lyrics to my favorite song:

STARLESS
by King Crimson

Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within only see
Starless and bible black

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness for me
Starless and bible black

Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that all yearns to be
Starless and bible black

[danlo]

The Hurt-Cat Stevens

You say you want to seek the truth, but it's hard to find
No one to help you, your friends don't have the time
So you ride around in your car. switch on the radio
You want to relate to something you once read in a book
Some kind of a way to try to take a look

Until I got hurt I was looking, I was on my way
Until I got hurt, until I got hurt, darling I painted my face grey
Until I got hurt, 'till got hurt, why didn't I
I didn't think of this until I got hurt
'Till I got hurt. baby. I didn't know' what love is

You say you want to learn to laugh 'cause music makes you cry
But the tears you shed are only in your eye
So you turn to any phoney mouth with a tale to tell
But he's just a hoaxer don't you know, selling peace and religion
Between his jokes and his karma chewing gum

Until I got hurt, I was looking, I was the same as you
Until I got hurt, until I got hurt, I did not know what to do
Until I got hurt, 'till I got hurt, why didn't I
I didn't think of this until I got hurt
'Till I got hurt, baby, I didn't know what love is

Young son, don't let me down, young son
I'm trusting you to keep on, never turn away now
Hold on, never let go, now hold on
Turn your heart to the bright sun
Love will come your way
Cos 'till you make that final show
You'll never know what love you've been missing
Missing

You say you want to seek the truth but you work alone
No one to help you and nobody to push you on
So you sit at home drinking your wine, television on
You wait for a miracle, cos you say one day one'll come along
(But wishful thinking, boy) any minute now You might be gone
I'd like to help you brother but that would be wrong

Until I got hurt, I was looking, I was on my way
Until I got hurt, until I got hurt, darling I didn't know which way
Until I got hurt, 'till I got hurt, why didn't I
I didn't think of this until I got hurt
'Till I got hurt, baby, I didn't know what love is

Until I got hurt, oh I didn't know what love is

[Worm of Despite]

You and whose army?
by Radiohead


Come on, come on
You think you drive me crazy, well
Come on, come on
You and whose army?
You and your cronies
Come on, come on
Holy Roman empire
Come on if you think
Come on if you think
You can take us on
You can take us on

You and whose army?
You and your cronies

You forget so easily

We ride tonight
We ride tonight
Ghost horses
Ghost horses
We ride tonight
We ride tonight
Ghost horses
Ghost horses
Ghost horses

[Fist and Faith]

Ah, Fire, I LOVE Counting Crows' 'Round Here!!!

[Fist and Faith]

OK, here's Steely Dan's Dr. Wu.

Katy tried
I was halfway crucified
I was on the other side
Of no tomorrow
You walked in
And my life began again
Just when I’d spent the last piaster
I could borrow
All night long
We would sing that stupid song
And every word we sang
I knew was true

Are you with me Dr. Wu
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew
Are you crazy are you high
Or just an ordinary guy
Have you done all you can do
Are you with me doctor

Don’t seem right
I’ve been strung out here all night
I’ve been waiting for the taste
You said you’d bring to me
Biscayne Bay
Where the Cuban gentlemen sleep all day
I went searching for the song
You used to sing to me
Katy lies
You can see it in her eyes
But imagine my surprise
When I saw you

Are you with me Dr. Wu
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew
She is lovely yes she’s sly
And you’re an ordinary guy
Has she finally got to you
Can you hear me doctor

[FizbansTalking_Hat]

"Teenage FBI"
von Guided By Voices
Someone tell me why, I do the things that I don't wanna do
When you're around me, I'm somebody else
Somebody tell me why, I act like a fool when things don't go my way
When you're around me, I'm somebody else
There is good reason, I guess
Happiness once gone to far
When you clean out the hive, does it make you wanna cry
Are you still being followed by the teenage FBI

Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why

Someone tell me why, I do the things that I don't wanna do
When you're around me, I'm somebody else

Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why

Someone tell me why, I do the things that I don't wanna do
When you're around me, I'm somebody else
Somebody tell me why, I act like a fool when things don't go my way
When you're around me, I'm somebody else

There is good reason, I guess
Happiness once gone to far
When you clean out the hive, does it make you wanna cry
Are you still being followed by the teenage FBI

Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why

Someone tell me why, I do the things that I don't wanna do
When you're around me, I'm somebody else

Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why

[Lord Mhoram]

The Who, A Quick One While He's Away Mind you, this is a "mini-opera" so there are several different parts and characters. It's all one song, though.
Part 1
Her man's been gone,
For nigh on a year
He was due home yesterday, but he ain't here
Her man's been gone
For nigh on a year, he was due home yesterday
But he ain't here

Part 2

Down your street your crying is a well - known sound
Your street is very well known, right here in town
Your town is very famous for the little girl
Whose cries can be heard all around the world

Part 3

Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la

We have a remedy
You'll appreciate
No need to be so sad-
He's only late
We'll bring you flowers and things,
Help pass your time
We'll give him eagle's wings
Then he can fly to you

Fa la la la la la
Fa la la la la

We have a remedy
Fa la la la la la la
(this is sung several times)

We have a remedy.
We have a remedy!

Little girl, why don't you stop your crying?
I'm gonna make you feel alright

Part4

My name is Ivor, I'm an engine driver
I know him well
I know why you feel blue
Just cuz he's late-
Don't mean he'll never get through
He told me he loves you
He ain't no liar, I ain't either
So let's have a smile for an old engine driver
Please take a sweet
Come take a walk with me
We'll sort it out
Back at my place maybe
It'll come right
You ain't no fool, I aint either
So why not be nice to an old engine driver?
Better be nice to an old engine driver


Part5

We'll soon be home
We'll soon be home
We'll soon
We'll soon, soon, soon be home
We'll soon be home
We'll soon be home
We'll soon
We'll soon, soon, soon be home

Come on, old horse

Soon be home
Soon be home
We'll soon, soon, soon be home

We'll soon
We'll soon, soon, soon be home

Part 6

Dang! (over and over)

Cello (over and over)

I can't believe it!
Do my eyes deceive me?
Am I back in your arms, away from all harm?
It's like a dream to be with you again!
Can't believe that I'm with you again!

I missed you, but I must admit
I kissed a few and once did sit
On Ivor the Engine driver's lap
And later with him....had a nap

You are forgiven, you are forgiven....(over and over )
You are forgiven!

[Cate]

None of you guys probably liked Simon and Garfunkel, but this one I think is My all time favorite of all songs. (and I am a lover of all categories--truly)

ALL I KNOW

I bruise you.......You bruise me
We both bruise too easily
too easily to let it show
I love you and that's all I know

All my plans have fallen through
All my plans depend on you
Depend on you to help them grow
I love you and that's all I know

When the singer's gone....let the song go on

But the ending's always come at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast and they pass too slow
I love you and that's all I know

When the singers' gone....let the song go on
It's a fine line between the darkness and the dawn
they say of the darkest night...
There's light beyond

But the ending always comes at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast and they pass too slow
I love you and that's all Iknow
that's all I know.......
that's all I know.......

[Furls Fire]

Ah, Fire, I LOVE Counting Crows' 'Round Here!!!

LOL!! I just now saw this It's a cool song.

here's another...

Mrs Potter's Lullaby

Well I woke up in mid-afternoon
cause that's when it all hurts the most
I dream I never know anyone at the party
and I'm always the host
If dreams are like movies,
then memories are films about ghosts
You can never escape
you can only move south down the coast

Well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
if you've never stared off into the distance
then your life is a shame
and thought I'll never forget your face
sometimes I can't remember my name

Hey Mrs Potter don't cry
Hey Mrs Potter I know why but
Hey Mrs Potter won't you talk to me

There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
And the price of memory
is the memory of the sorrow it brings
And there is always one last light to turn out
and one last bell to ring
and the last one out of the circus
has to lock up everything

Or the elephants will get out
and forget to remember what you said
and the ghosts of the tilt-a-whirl
will linger inside your head
and the ferris wheel junkies
will spin them forever instead
when I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bed

Hey Mrs Potter don't go
Hey Mrs Potter I don't know but
Hey Mrs Potter won't you talk to me

All the blue light reflections
that color my mind when I sleep
And the lovesick rejections
that accompany the company I keep
all the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, But I need
someone to help me sleep

So I throw my head into the air
and it swims in the beams
it's just a brief interruption
of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
Well, I know I don't know you
and you're probably not what you seem
But I'd sure like to find out
So why don't you climb down off that movie screen

Hey Mrs Potter don't turn
Hey Mrs Potter I burn for you
Hey Mrs Potter won't you talk to me

When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass
on the floor
and orders another
Well, I wonder what he did that for
That's when I know that have to get out
because I have been there before
So I gave up my seat at the bar
and I head for the door

We drove out to the desert
just to lie down beneath the bowl of stars
We stand up at the Palace
like it's the last of the great pioneertown bars
We shout out these songs
against the clang of electric guitars
You can see a million miles tonight
But you can't get very far

Hey Mrs Potter I won't touch and
Hey Mrs Potter it's not much but
Hey Mrs Potter won't you talk to me...

[birdandbear]

I Will Not Take These Things For Granted
-Toad the Wet Sprocket

One part of me just wants to tell you everything
One part just needs the quiet
But if I'm lonely here
(I'm lonely here)
And on the telephone you offer reassurance

I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things

How can I hold the part of me
That only you can carry
The means of strength I haven't found
But if it's frightening I'll bear the cold
And on the telephone you offer warm asylum

I'm listening
Flowers in the garden
laughter in the hall
Children in the park

I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things anymore

To crawl inside the wire and
Feel something near me
To feel this accepting
That it is lonely here
But not alone
And on the telephone you offer visions dancing

I'm listening
Music in the bedroom
Laughter in the Hall
Dive into the ocean
Singing by the fire
Running through the forest
Standing in the wind
And rolling canyons

I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things for granted
I will not take these things anymore

I will not take these things for granted
(Flowers in the garden)
I will not take these things for granted
(laughter in the hall)
I will not take these things for granted
(A child in the park)
I will not take these things for granted
(Dive into the ocean)
I will not take these things for granted
(Standing in the wind)
I will not take these things for granted
(Rolling canyons)

[Fist and Faith]

Cate, I LOVE S&G, and just S. Wednesday Morning 3AM is awesome. The original version of Sounds of Silence, Bleeker Street, and a ton of other songs from a ton of other albums!

[Cate]

Know this one? Here's the first line.....
Keep it going.......

Smile an everlasting smile....a smile can
bring you near to me......

[Fist and Faith]

Argh! A nice new game to play, but I'm stumped!!

[Cate]

ok...second line...

Don't ever let me find you down. cause
That would bring a tear to me

[Cate]

hint......Bee Gees